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Spider Murphy Gang: Mourning the drummer Franz Trojan

2021-09-24T04:11:40.622Z


From the founding of the Spider Murphy Gang until 1992, Franz Trojan sat behind the drums of the Bavarian rock'n'roll troupe. Now the musician has died at the age of 64. Our obituary:


From the founding of the Spider Murphy Gang until 1992, Franz Trojan sat behind the drums of the Bavarian rock'n'roll troupe.

Now the musician has died at the age of 64.

Our obituary:

It wasn't original, but it was tried and tested.

When the Spider Murphy Gang had sensational success with their Bavarian rock'n'roll in the early 1980s, their drummer Franz Trojan was turned into the clumsy Kasperl of the band.

On record sleeves, interviews and in feature films, Trojan is the slightly weird but lovable type, a kind of mascot.

This role model was invented by the Beatles for Ringo Starr, who thereby became the secret darling of the fans.

Spider Murphy Gang: a clever live band

Since then it has basically been a cliché in pop music: the slightly crazy drummer who plays the clown - and is either bad boy or simple-minded. So Trojan takes on that role in the Spider Murphy gang, and it worries him from the start. He is a technically well-versed drummer - compared to the often amateurish "one-hit wonder" of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) a giant. The Spiders, a clever live band, only got into the NDW hysteria through a misunderstanding, but nobody has anything against number 1 hits and gold records. But Trojan wants to prove that he is more than the troupe's buffoon and after a GDR tour - the first by a West German band, by the way - composes the song “Mädchen drüben” and begins to take control of the mixer more and more often. How exactly is itthat the musician left the Spider Murphy Gang in 1992, there are various legends about it, probably none of them is true. The band was at a low point creatively and commercially back then, Trojan believes he is better off solo.

The Spider Murphy Gang didn't really belong to Neue Deutsche Welle

In fact, he produces a lot in his recording studio, there is also money coming in, but Trojan actually manages, as he later admits, to cheer a fortune. The millions run through his fingers - he can't handle money, he explains. He lends huge sums of money to supposed friends and otherwise enjoys living very much. There is too much alcohol and drugs, the classic rock star's relegation piece. "Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll cost money," Trojan later stated dryly, and that one of the reasons why he got rid of cocaine was because he could no longer afford it. While his old band is hard-working with bees to win back its fans with countless performances and is now a cult among younger people, its founding drummer is being forgotten. It wasn't until he was on trial for theftif you notice him again, he is already living in a homeless shelter. A patron then offers him a caravan in her garden; from now on Trojan lives there. He writes an autobiography and gives interviews in which he talks about his former colleagues from the leather. He was defrauded, often not listed as a composer, although he had contributed a lot to the songs, and in general he was treated unfairly. When asked, he admitted that drug abuse and alcohol consumption had ruined him - and not his ex-band. And that he can no longer pull himself up to seriously make music again. He often sits in front of his caravan smoking and quarreling with the world.A patron then offers him a caravan in her garden; from now on Trojan lives there. He writes an autobiography and gives interviews in which he talks about his former colleagues from the leather. He was defrauded, often not listed as a composer, although he had contributed a lot to the songs, and in general he was treated unfairly. When asked, he admitted that drug abuse and alcohol consumption had ruined him - and not his ex-band. And that he can no longer pull himself up to seriously make music again. He often sits in front of his caravan smoking and quarreling with the world.A patron then offers him a caravan in her garden; from now on Trojan lives there. He writes an autobiography and gives interviews in which he talks about his former colleagues from the leather. He was defrauded, often not listed as a composer, although he had contributed a lot to the songs, and in general he was treated unfairly. When asked, he admitted that drug abuse and alcohol consumption had ruined him - and not his ex-band. And that he can no longer pull himself up to seriously make music again. He often sits in front of his caravan smoking and quarreling with the world.often not listed as a composer, although he had contributed a lot to the songs, and in general he was treated unfairly. When asked, he admitted that drug abuse and alcohol consumption had ruined him - and not his ex-band. And that he can no longer pull himself up to seriously make music again. He often sits in front of his caravan smoking and quarreling with the world.often not listed as a composer, although he had contributed a lot to the songs, and in general he was treated unfairly. When asked, he admitted that drug abuse and alcohol consumption had ruined him - and not his ex-band. And that he can no longer pull himself up to seriously make music again. He often sits in front of his caravan smoking and quarreling with the world.

Spider Murphy Gang: There are many versions as to why Franz Trojan got out

True, Trojan was very unlucky.

As a child he spent a lot of time in hospitals and missed a lot of school time, just like Ringo Starr, by the way.

And as a long-time member of the Spider Murphy Gang, he has to observe that Günther Sigl passes him by with talent and ambition and is perceived as a band leader.

But most of all, Trojan has no knack for enduring itself and accepting the world for what it is.

Now he has died at the age of only 64.

Way too early.

Source: merkur

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